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Santa Monica Beach Engagement {Jacqueline and Gregory}

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

This was my last session of the year. Jacqueline and Gregory met me in Santa Monica on the coldest day of the year December 30, 2010. It had been raining for weeks in LA but I knew it will give us gorgeous sunset. I often wonder how I get so lucky with my couples who are so trusting of my work and talent. Regardless of slightly cold and windy weather these two were so relaxed and fun to photograph. For this session, I used one of my new Lensbaby for some parts and I think I love the result. For those of you who know my work, I don’t like to manipulate images too much in Photoshop, so Lensbaby works perfect for me because I can do it all inside the camera. Jacqueline and Gregory is having a destination wedding in Tri-State area in March. I can’t wait to photograph their wedding with my talented friend Leslie Talley Photography . That’s right she is my new partner in crime but AK is still my right-hand person for those of you who wonder. Congratulations again Jacqueline and Gregory!

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Santa Monica Beach Pre-Wedding Photography {Yuka + Ryan} 10.10.09: Engagement

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

My royal blog readers, I am so sorry that I fell so far behind updating this blog. I have no right excuses this time just pure laziness. I was busy with work but so are many others. There are a lot of sessions that I want to share with you all but I chose this love story to resume my blog.
I think that the marriage takes everyone by surprise in most cases. Some marry the person from their childhood and some marry the person that they never even thought to meet in their dreams. I married the latter. Yuka and Ryan’s love story is pretty remarkable. In China, a girl who grew up in Japan met a Korean guy who came from the states but grew up in Mexico City. So what did this brave girl did when they fell in love? She left everything behind to be with her true love. I left Korea when I was 16, and I know how hard it is to leave your friends and family behind whatever that reason is. Honestly, I am not sure if I can do what Yuka did if I were to do it over again. Yuka and Ryan, there will be more obstacles as a marriage couple from now on. I hope you two can overcome those obstacles with the laughter that you shared with me during our photo session. Congratulations and I can’t wait to photograph your wedding in few weeks. Here are very few of my favorites!

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Tags: Japanese Wedding Photographer, Korean Weddings, Los Angeles Weddings, Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica Pier Wedding Photography
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Surjaya + Justin Engagement, Downtown Los Angeles

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Okay, I know I know, I am way behind on updating my blog but you all know that I have been busy shooting so please stay in tune for future postings. I may even break once a week blog update rule. My beautiful and talented make-up artist, Surjaya is getting married this Saturday. Surjaya and I met on facebook and from the moment we exchanged our first email, I knew that we are going to be friends that could share each other’s passion. Surjaya already has worked few assignments with me and she’s done fabulous job. Surjaya also is such a warm and poised person, it’s always so nice to be around her. It’s always extra bonus to have some like that while you work at chaotic environment. Surjaya’s fiance Justin is equally talented and charming as you can see this slide show. on warm Sunday afternoon, we met in downtown did this fun shoot. Thanks to few nice ladies, Surjaya and Jusitn show off their dance moves. No wonder, they met dancing at the wedding. I can wait to see them dance again as a husband and a wife on Saturday.

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Tags: Engagement, Los Angeles Downtown Weddings, Los Angeles Wedding, Union Station, Vintage Wedding
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UCLA Pre_Wedding Photography {Jennifer + Matt}: Engagement

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

This session took place at UCLA because this is where this tall handsome French guy met a gorgeous and intelligent American girl. Though they both deny that it wasn’t love at first sight, I am convinced that they pretty much knew that their story will turn out this way. Mattieu proposed at the Laguna Beach so we added little bit of beach scene to their session at the Santa Monica Pier. Jennifer and Matthieu was both very creative and willing to do anything for the shot! My kind of couple! So here are very few of my favorite of the day. Thank you Jen and Matt , AK and I both had wonderful time photographing you two, we can’t wait to see you again in July.

This very first shot was taken by AK who has been coming to 2nd shoot for me. AK even took basic photography classes with me while I was in school and has been shooting with me for now past 6years! I really have to give him more credit on my blog because he manages to capture these precious moments. Thank you honey for being my biggest supporter. XOXO

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Tags: Couples, Santa Monica Beach Wedding, Santa Monica Pier, UCLA, UCLA alumni, UCLA engagement session, UCLA photography
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San Francisco Pre-Prewedding Photography {Linda+David} : engagements

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

On a warm Sunday afternoon, We met Linda and David at the Slanted door in San Francisco. Linda and I had been e-mailing for few months now. Instantly, we became facebook friends but we had never met before. We thought it would be nice to get to know each other in person before the engagement session so we decided to meet for lunch. Linda and David had been close friends for 5 years before they recently got engaged. Maybe it was because their relationship grew out of a friendship, David was always so very attentive to Linda and Linda was also very sweet with him. I loved the way Linda called David, “Babe” not “Baby”- (Hope it was okay to reveal that Linda) They were a little camera shy in the beginning but they got over that half way through our shoot. David surprised me with some hidden GQ poses at the end of our session. Linda was so patient with the cold breeze that bothered us a little at the end of the session. It was hot and long day in San Francisco but we still liked each other at the end of the shoot so we went to dinner together in Oakland where we had Kalbi and soju! What a perfect way to end the evening. I am starting this preview with our last image because I just love everything about this picture. Linda and David, Can’t wait to photograph your wedding in August! Enjoy this preview.

At Baker beach where we caught one of the most amazing moments in San Francisco. The fog was rolling in right before sunset.